Re: 30 years of Lua

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

Hi Luiz,

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:14 PM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> We commemorate 30 years of Lua today: The earliest implementation of
> Lua that we have found to date has files dated 28 Jul 1993.
>
> We are planning a Lua Workshop in Rio to commemorate 30 years of Lua.
> The event will be held at PUC-Rio on 17 October:
> https://www.lua.org/wshop23.html
>
> To known more about the history of Lua, read these papers:
> https://www.lua.org/docs.html#papers
> In particular, the HOPL III paper, "The evolution of Lua":
> https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/talks/hopl-slides.pdf
>
> To see how the implementation of Lua has evolved, see the various releases at
> https://www.lua.org/ftp/
> In particular, try the package below, which contains all releases of Lua:
> https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-all.tar.gz
>
> On behalf of the Lua team, I thank you all for your interest in Lua
> and for your support and feedback during all these years, which have
> motivated us to keep developing Lua. We also thank Tecgraf and
> PUC-Rio, for providing an environment open to innovation.

Thank YOU Luiz, Roberto, Waldemar, and the rest of the Lua team (lab)
for sharing Lua. Learning Lua was a pivotal moment in my life which
made me aware of my passion for programming and computer science. I
wouldn't be where I am today not having learned Lua.

Happy 30th festivities!

-- 
Patrick Donnelly